Kyle Schellhorn 5769 Belt Line Road Unit 1005 Dallas, Texas 75254 kyleschellhorn@gmail.com 972.439.6082
Objective:
I am committed to creative work in landscape architecture, planning, art, and urban design. Reflected in my work experience is a dedication to design excellence and innovative ecological practices, from intimately-scaled landscapes to large-scale urban developments and master plans. You miss 100% of the shots you do not take ~Wayne Gretzky
Skills
Landscape Architect Analyst for Kimley-horn
Leadership Critical Thinking Attention to Detail Organization Team Player Research/Analysis Photography CD Sets Time Management Grading Sketching
Las Colinas, Texas| May 2016 - Present
– Developed master plan graphics to secure $10 million dollar North Port, Florida aquatic contract – Executed $35 million dollar City of Dallas multi-aquatic centers construction document sets – Designed grade, storm drainage, and utility network on $8.6 million dollar Aquatic center in St. Charles, Missouri – Continues tasks: – Assist regional Kimley-horn offices through remote support – Enhance internal 3-D landscape graphic standards – Update design methods with modern technology – Organize sub consultant communications through weekly check ins – Increase internal efficiencies with regional offices with weekly production reports – Analyze and predict 1 month, 3 month, and 6 month team staffing needs
Landscape Architect Intern for the City of Olathe, KS
Education
Olathe, Kansas | Summer of 2015
Iowa State University Class of 2016 Bachelor’s of Landscape Architecture Secondary major in Environmental Studies Ames, Iowa – 2015 Philadelphia Schoolyard Initiative – 2014 Rome Study Abroad Program
Experience
– Rome Exhibit Committee member – Student Society of landscape Architects – Class Representative – Peer Mentor for incoming Freshman
Achievements Eagle Scout
Boy Scouts Of America
Outstanding Design Award
– Designed from schematic design phase through construction document phase – Calculated a $300,000 budget for Arbor Landing Park with a completion date of July 2016 – Collaborated with landscape architects and designed based on city constraints – Prepared construction specifications and drawings – Designed and detailed grading, drainage, and planting plans – Prepared and presented community presentation graphics – Incorporated public art into park signage – Consult and secure community support with future park development
Professional Horticulture Intern at Disney World
Adobe Design Suite AutoCAD Civil 3D Infraworks Sketchup ArcGIS Lumion 3D
Reference
Orlando, Florida | Summer of 2014
Software
– Maintained plantings within the Magic Kingdom – Collaborated with landscape architect and horticulturist to design annual planting beds – Simplified planting bed installation plan and oversaw operations – Expanded plant forensic knowledge – Identified plant diseases and cures – Understood view sheds and guest perception – Exhibited safety and efficiency, enhanced show, and demonstrated courtesy
*upon request
Nursery Sales Representative at Country Landscapes Ames, Iowa | July 2013 - December 2014
Disney Horticulture, FL
Top 10 Sketchy Saturday Drawing|Week 38 Landscape Architecture Network
– Maintained nursery stock and provided customer support with plant suggestions
Laborer at Country Landscapes
Deans List
Ames, Iowa | Summer of 2013
Iowa State University
– Took direction and instruction from a plan designed by a landscape architect while understanding and incorporating into clients site
Hobbies
Motorcycles
Percussion
Traveling
Biking
Sailing
Music
Tinkering
Bouldering/Climbing
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Perspective|It is not where we have been but where we are going. We have had choices that have lead us to this moment in time, now. What has been your path, your journey that has lead you here? What is your story? My story is inside and is waiting to be explored. Potential| We have had lived a life that is memorable to us. We have developed in such a way that everything has fallen into place to bring us to this moment, now in time. We are all flower buds, waiting to bloom, waiting to be discovered. Sometimes we have those “late-bloomers� and sometime we have the early ones, but we all were made for a reason, for a destiny that we will fulfill. We have the potential to rise above anything and this comes with drive and passion.
Contents Tomorrow Land Renovation Garibaldi Passage Confluence Park Mt. Airy Schools Fossil Creek Amenities Center Tower Terrace San Jacinto Roundabout
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Main Street|Taken within the midst of the busiest time with the Magic Kingdom, Disney World has been a Common destination for families, friends, and creative designers for years. From having an average 52,000 guests per day, imagineers had to meet minimum spacing requirements and transform the space of the Magic Kingdom to be an fully immerse experience. Imagineers have designed Main Street using the following design principles; sense of scale, forces perspective, and theming.
Tomorrowland Renovation Walt Disney World Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Introduction With ever-changing entertainment demands, the world renowned Disney World (Florida) will always have a challenge of keeping their entertainment experience up to date. The utopian, ultramodern design of 1967’s Tomorrowland, gleaming with stark white, black and cool shades of blue and silver was supposed to resemble space. Tomorrowland was then transformed in 1994 to predominantly white and blues, creating a retro-modernist landscape altered to resemble a galactic spaceport as envisioned by the sci-fi comic strips of the early 20th century.
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. ~Walt Disney *Outstanding Design Award Individual Project
Liberty Square
Tomorrowland Stage 3 performances/shows per day
Fantasy land
Frontier land Tomorrowland Adventure land Main Street USA
People Mover Restrooms Planted Bed Tron Portal
Design Precedents
Liriope Planting Bed
Resting Terrace
Astro-Turf
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Barberini Crest and Banner|A stain glass window in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Ara coeli features the Barberini family crest. The bee’s within the crest are a symbol of hard work, dedication, and eloquence. Adopted by many other popes and families within the 1500s.
Garibaldi Passage Piazza Garibaldi, Janiculum Hill Rome, Italy
Introduction With the desperate need for an identity, the Janiculum Hill holds many important landmarks, like Porta Pancrazio and The Giuseppe Garibaldi Monument. These two landmarks are disconnected and need to strive for a unity. The ridge connecting these two landmarks, over time, have been transformed from a pedestrian route to a vehicular throughway. The Garibaldi Passage Project entitles Redeveloping, Reorganizing, and Reconnecting the physical and social structure of this monumental hill.
“The Janiculum was the second highest hill in Ancient Rome... because of its stunning location overlooking the city, it is thought that the cult’s priests would stand atop the hill and look for auspices - signs from the gods.� ~ Unknown *Cultural Diversity Individual Project
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Precedent Imagery “Ninety per cent of accidents could be avoided if people paid more attention,” said a traffic police commander in Rome, Elisabetta Mancini.
A. Cantilever Viewing Station
181,227
Accidents resulted in Death or Injury in 2013
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B. Forced Perspective
Traffic Calming Technics
Raised Walkways
C. Raised Viewing Tower
Speed Humps
D. Amphitheater Viewing Grass
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Smith Memorial Playground|A staple to the Philadelphia city, Smith Memorial Playground combines practical design with education elements. Used as the primary precident for this project, Smith Memorial Playground was brought up consistantly throughout our interviews with teachers and parent as place that is consistantly visited by most of Mount Airy School District students.
C.W. Henry School Master Plan Mt. Airy School District Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Introduction C.W. Henry is a K-8 school with 470 student (2015) with a dysfunctional school yard that has be in disarray for over five years. The principal, Ms. Fatima Rogers, is looking for knew proposals to redevelop the schoolyard as a whole to enhance education, natural understanding, proposing learning opportunities, and enable a student to learn through action. Check out more at: https://vimeo.com/140679587
“I am very excited to see how this new space can be transformed to further my sons education and creativity.� ~ Parent *Community Schoolyards Group Project Kyle Schellhorn (Project Manager) Tyson Marinis, Jiahuan Cai, Jacob Brouillette
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A site that is disconnected and showing its age, C.W. Henry school has been waiting in limbo for a site improvements. With funding limited within the Mt. Airy School District, there is only so much that can be achieved. The one thing that sets C.W. Henry apart from the other Mt. Airy Schools is the community in which surrounds it. They are progressive and wanting to see change. The change has started with the addition of a small family owned grocery store on the North corner of Carpenter Land and Greener St. With the school showing little curb appeal and unsafe exterior conditions for the students, C.W. Henry needs to be the next update in the community.
Basketball hoop Kindergarten playground
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Play structure Lower Schoolyard Open Space/ Patched Asphalt
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Parent Bubble Diagram
Student Bubble Diagram
Analysis, Diagrams, and Process Throughout the duration of working with C.W. Henry representatives and community members, Iowa State University developed a sequence of bubble diagrams that show the process of our initial work through the conceptual design proposal. We have developed our ideas using the existing circulation as an aesthetic ordering system. This aesthetic ordering system, the braided river, can we seeing within our spacial planning diagram. The time of our schematic design development spread from Oct. 17th, 2015 thru Dec. 1st, 2015.
Drawn by Kyle Schellhorn
Schamatic Design : Intial Brain Dump PROGRAM LIST Open space 1: Kick ball, Softball Open space 2: Two half basketball courts
Open space 1 Shaded space
Shaded space 1: Vegatation, Shade structure Playground / Mounds: Swing, Slide, Monkey bars, Stepping stone, Climbing wall, Trampolines Ground play: Painting, Hop skotch, Four square
Playground/Mound
Outdoor ecological play: Plants, Trellis, Rocks, Insects, Frogs, Green wall/Green roof Kindergarten playground
Line up area Vegetable garden
Open space 2
Stairs/ Outdoor classroom
Running tracks/ Cross country
Stage area
Shaded space
Ground play Resting space
Outdoor ecological play
Shaded space1 Trash/ Delievery
Vegetation
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Staff parking Educational planting
Educational planting
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Educational planting
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Drawn by Jiahuan Cai
Drawn by Jiahuan Cai
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Schamatic Design : Second Brain Dump PROGRAM LIST
Vegetation
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Open space: Kick ball, Softball Playground / Mounds: Swing, Slide, Monkey bars, Stepping stone, Climbing wall, Trampolines
Basketball hoops
Braided River is the organizational concept that was used in designing the overall layout of the proposed school grounds. A braided river can be defined as, “is one of a number of channels that consists of a network of small channels separated by small and often temporary islands call braided bars.
Drawn by Tyson Marinis
Open space
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Seating/ Shade structure
Running tracks/ Cross country Stairs/ Outdoor classroom
Line up area
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Resting space
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Playground / Mounds: Swing, Slide, Monkey bars, Stepping stone, Climbing wall, Trampolines
Basketball Hoops
Outdoor ecological play: Plants, Trellis, Rocks, Insects, Frogs, Green wall/Green roof
Trash/ Delievery
Stairs/ Amphitheater
Running tracks/ Cross country
Vegetation
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Vegetable garden
Ground Play
Ground play: Painting, Hop skotch, Four square Seating/ Shade structure
Playground/Mound Stage area
Shaded space/ Quite zone
Kindergarten playground
Seating/ Shade Structure
PROGRAM LIST Open space: Kick ball, Softball
Vegetable garden
Gate way
Shaded space/ Quite zone
Kindergarten playground
Vegetation
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Educational planting
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Painted Ground Track
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Being in North Philadelphia and in a heavily vegetated area, a shadow study was recommended to understand what type of plant materials we should use throughout the site. We concluded that we would not get more than 6 hours of direct sun throughout the year and would have to use plants that would grow in semi shade/sun.
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Improved Street Appeal ADA Accessible Community Garden Drawn by Kyle Schellhorn
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Towns Near Eagle, CO|Interconnected by a single road and biking train, Eagle, CO has only two neighbors that help this commuter community thrive. Located to the West is Gypsum, which provides a region airport, and to the East is Edwards, an unincorporated community.
Confluence Park Eagle, Colorado
Introduction Imagine a site that breaks the borders between human and wildlife interaction by creating an open exchange between the two. This seven acre site sits at the confluence of Brush Creek and Eagle River. It is an active site for animal crossing and will need to cater to both animal and human populations.
“As long as such suburbs do not end up as commuter dormitories or nothing moe than a commuter suburb. The next stage is to produce a richer range of activities and employment opportunities so they can be more selfcontained.� ~ Brendon Gleeson *City Connectivity Individual
Town of Eagle, CO Analysis
Town Public Parks Eagle, CO is 4.5 square miles with a ~8% being public Parks. The public parks are the areas set aside for recreation and different sponsored events.
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Thee areas with the red hatch are closed during the winter and are hunting season is closed.
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Hiking Trails and Connectivity Eagle, CO has over 25 miles of hiking trails that lead from the valley to the mountain tops.
The streets of Eagle, CO directly correlate the topography of the town. Downtown has developed in the traditional grid pattern while new development has broke the conventional street design and used topography for its advantage.
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Upon arriving to Confluence Park for the first time, we saw an abandon site that was battered and abused by the existing junk yard on site and previous illegal burying of contaminants. We know from city analyses that there was a need and draw for extending the existing trails, city park system, and open space plan which became our design intent. We needed to create a space where animals could migrate in the spring and fall along and a place that brought the community of Eagle, Colorado together to allow for an open exchange. Eagle river was the second obstacle that needed to be addressed. With its visual beautiful and essence, aggressive flow and force we knew that a raised crossed would be the only adequate option.
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Native prairie plant species that pixelate into active pedestrian trails is the aesthetic design principle that is used throughout the site. Creating layers and multiple heights through vegetation and built structure will create a endless park that creates contrast and spacial depth. With the significance of water in Colorado, a retention basin was needed to treat any subsurface contamination and clean water before it enters Brush creek and Eagle River.
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Constuction Document Overview|With 15 buildings on site, zone isolation was required to properly ensure accuracy within the construction of the Fossil Creek Complex. Key zones that emphasized the landscape were graded and managed by the Landscape Architect Project Manager.
Fossil Creek Amenities Center Dallas, Texas
Introduction Grading a three tier pool with and three tier retaining wall was a task that need to be completed with percision and understanding of how water would drain on site. The grading task and rendering tasks were completed by Kyle Schellhorn. The importance of the rendering to was to get a visualisation of the site and how it would look once built.
“In merging nature and culture the most successful cities combine such universal needs as maintaining or restoring contact with the cycles of nature, with specific, local characteristics.� ~ Sally A. Kitt Chappell *Grading Plan and Rendering Kimley-Horn
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Panorama|Full of bright vibrance and color, Tower Terrace Court Yard will meet the need of all users. With spaces in spaces, the overall of this design is to fill a compact space with 5 activities while retaining open space. Duel purpose spaces were essential to making this space feasible.
Tower Terrace Court Yard
Conceptual Design Dallas, Texas
Introduction Designed with geometric patterns and building line accents, the Tower Terrace Court Yard caters to the majority of any communities needs. Featuring in this space are a gathering pavilion, physical activity space, meditation pond, and bocce ball court. These renderings used to visualize space and help better understand the needs of our client.
“There is no peace like the peace of an inner court yard on a sunny day� ~ Yann Martel *Space Transformation Individual Project
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Round About|With the purpose of being the center node for San Jacinto Boulevard, the San jacinto round about features a 11 foot tall sculpture of colonel San Jacinto himself.
San Jacinto Roundabout
San Jacinto Road Baytown, Texas
Introduction Coming as a request to send a rendering to our client, I was tasked with creating multiple perspectives in lumion on what the new San Jacinto roundabout will look like when completed in 2018. With little direction give to Kimley-horn on what was need in the perspective, I was able to free my mind of the limitation of what the perspective had to be and think about what it could be. How could we best dipict this new road, round about, and wave wall?
“In merging nature and culture the most successful cities combine such universal needs as maintaining or restoring contact with the cycles of nature, with specific, local characteristics.� ~ Sally A. Kitt Chappell *Cross Dicipline Colarboration Kimley-horn
I am passionate about creating efficient, sustainable, and functional designs that are engaging, beautiful, and memorable. I believe that the essence of any designed landscape is expressed through materiality, texture, color and detail. Thank you for reviewing my portfolio. Please feel free to contact me via telephone, e-mail, or through the LinkedIn network.